Hi-lar-i-ous pranksters at Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon put up homophobic posters all over campus while the school was promoting a screening and Q&A for Joe Wilson’s Out In The Silence, about what happens when one gay man announces his wedding in a rural Pennsylvania newspapers. The posters, which were reported to police at a hate crime, were falsely attributed to the Diversity Achievement Center, which was hosting the screening. And they were technically removed from campus bulletin boards because they were not pre-approved by the school, as is policy, and not because they were full of hate. [photo: Joe Wilson, via]
nineinchnail
America is seemingly a nation full of Christian Fundamentalists. Religion addles the brains of those who are easily lead although I fail to see why folks are so anti-gay when “god” supposedly created everyone!
RomanHans
Saying the homophobic posters were “falsely attributed” to the Diversity Achievement Center implies someone believed the DAC printed them. The original article is more concise, saying the posters “claimed they were sponsored by the DAC.”
Justin Bolger
Thanks for taking an interest in our school’s struggle (and for using the photo I took). I’m glad there’s so much support out there!
B
No. 1 · nineinchnail wrote, “America is seemingly a nation full of Christian Fundamentalists.”
Blame the British (who were glad to see the Puritans leave). As the joke goes, Australia got the criminals and America got the Puritans, something the Aussies are eternally grateful for.
Casey
@nineinchnail:
You are assuming it was done by Christians/religious people. What are you basing this on? As a Christian and a member of the GSA at LBCC I am appalled by the flyer, but I am equally appalled that so many are blaming a specific group when nobody knows who put the flyers up. We will most likely never know.
Chris
@B: Hey! Georgia was a penal colony too! 😛
Adam LaMascus
Thanks for making it seem like the school was okay with the posters and took them down only due to a technicality. Also, excellent job neglecting to mention that immediately after the flyers were taken down the school published letters and articles condemning the actions and supporting the work of the DAC. This article makes it seem like these hateful actions were normal and acceptable, possibly even sanctioned. This was not the case, and numerous individuals, myself included, have worked and written against this hate crime. It seems to me that you could have done more research into the event before writing about it. Oh, and did you ask us for permission to use our photo?
Martin Gonzalez
Joe Wilson and his husband came to my own University last month for one of our Queer History Month events for a screening a Q&A of the film as well. They’re both wonderful people, as is the film, which makes me all the more upset to learn that something like this happened.
Also, to those bringing up religion in their comments, the film happens to depict two starkly different religious types of people. One IS the stereotypical nut-job. But the other, over time and through dialogue, comes to support gay rights.
marco
It’s a shame that the kid in “Out in the Silence” says he’s straight now. He has a girlfriend and says he plans on living as straight so he doesn’t have to go through life being hated.
What a shame…..I hope Joe Wilson can help that kid get out of that town so that he can live an honest life.